Jurnal Sosial Humaniora

Number 2, 2008

The problem underlying this research is a perception of slow development and advancement labeled to Indonesian as a result of low working spirit in comparison to its neighboring countries known as “Little Dragons” such as South Korea, Taiwan, China and Singapore. Moslem dominate Indonesia as a major religion; whether Aqidah has influences on a person’s working spirit is the main focus of this research. It is very important to prove whether there is a positive relationship between a person’s Aqidah and his/her working spirit.
Data analysis is carried data tabulation method and correlation analysis (Pearson Correlation). The result show that almost, the correlation of the variables shows quite low correlation between the tendency of Aqidah thought and working spirit. It can be concluded that Aqidah is not the sole factor influencing the person working spirit. There must other factors outside Aqidah in particular and religion in general.

This research aim to know about interpretation and implementation low of Public Service in Surabaya. This is qualitatif research and take many public officials as informan with snowball sampling methode. This research show that implementation law of public service not opptimaly because many resion: there are not minimum standart public services, quality of human resoursches, and carrying capacity of services not good. Beside that, there is not guide line to interpretation about low of public servise, so many officials have problems to implentation. So, needed change paradigm of public officials that they should give service not serviced by public. But, in generally, many officials public services aware that low of public servises in Surabaya is commitment type by government to increase quality of public service espesialy for Surabaya citizen.

Many incidents happen in the universe. They are make humans embittered and try to understand about them. Things about incident were searched in this research : how an incident emerge, actor of all incidents in universe, and formula that represents all incidents in universe and with the using of it. Inductive thinking by using datas which they are not results from an experiment was used as research method. The results of the research are : 1) An incident emerge because a movement, 2) Actor of all incidents in universe is mosen, 3) Formula that represents all incidents in universe is input = output. The formula called incident formula, 4) The using of incident formula is for the basic of zero change postulate making, which the postulate’s statement is, “ there is no change in each incident in universe. Change that happens is not real “, the incident formula is also used for the basic of mosen cycle postulate making, which the postulate’s statement is, “ each movement of mosen is a cycle ”. Point 1 to 3 plus zero change postulate called incident theory

Writing is a skill derived from a long way of learning and exercises. Different from other language skills, writing is considered the difficult language skill to acquire since it involves many aspects of linguistics, social, and writing knowledge and conventions. There are at least three important elements of writing useful to produce a good piece of composition, language competence, writing competence and cultural competence. This paper shows the influence of these three elements in order to produce good, readable, communicative, and successful writing